[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25700]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               PRIORITIES

  (Mr. CHANDLER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. CHANDLER. Mr. Speaker, the cuts to education, health care, 
housing and nutrition programs that we will consider later today once 
again expose the real agenda of the majority.
  This reconciliation package presents a simple choice, either care for 
the poor, the sick and the hungry, and help students attend college, or 
cut taxes for the wealthy and give yet another handout to the oil 
industry. The choice seems almost too easy, but yet again, our friends 
on the other side of the aisle will sacrifice the moral principle of 
caring for your neighbor in favor of funneling billions in tax breaks 
and government handouts to the most well off.
  These are the priorities of the majority. Increase our debt, punish 
the least among us, and line the pockets of the wealthy. I urge my 
colleagues to oppose this misguided and immoral reconciliation package.

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